Building a SSRS 2008 off an EDM

Question

Can someone please outline the process of building a SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 report based on a ADO.Net Entity Framework Entity Data Model? If you know of any example, please point me to it. Thank you!

Answer 1

Create ADO.NET Data Services based on your EDM:

http://geekswithblogs.net/frankw/archive/2008/03/08/ado.net-entity-framework-and-data-services-in-action-part-1.aspx http://geekswithblogs.net/frankw/archive/2008/03/08/ado.net-entity-framework-and-data-services-in-action-part-2.aspx

Consume web service as data source in SSRS 2008:

http://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/using-web-service-as-a-data-source-in-sql-server-reporting-services/

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Is through a web service the only way?

Answer 3

There is no reason to go through a web service. Just map your objects to your database, when creating a report choose "Object Data Source".

The only trick with Object Data Source, is if you need to access members of a related object you do it like this (for example if you want to print a first name of a person's parent.)

=Fields!Parent.Value.FirstName